Coffee Crisp
It's from 1938, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nestlé
- Origin
- Canada
- Debuted
- 1938
- Note
- "makes a nice light snack"
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About
As of 2026, it's 88 years old.
Coffee Crisp is a Canadian chocolate bar that 'makes a nice light snack' — its actual, beautifully understated slogan — and is so rarely sold elsewhere that homesick Canadians abroad treat it like contraband, begging visitors to smuggle some over. Crispy coffee-cream wafers in chocolate, it's modest in the most Canadian way possible.
Around since 1938, its scarcity outside Canada turned it into a small, polite symbol of national identity.
Light, crispy, and apologetically delicious, Coffee Crisp is the bar Canadians will absolutely ask you to bring back from a trip north.
Coffee Crisp through the years
Introduced in Canada
"A nice light snack"
The slogan becomes Canadian advertising shorthand.
